How install pdftotext on Manjaro?

[HibouFripon]

Hi.

I try to use the wholeaked from github to protect my pdf files.

The tool is available here :

https://github.com/utkusen/wholeaked

pdftotext is needed to check if a file is leaked or not.I followed the installation from main page.I installed xpdfreader but when i try to check a leaked file i have the following errors :

./wholeaked -n project1 -f myfile.pdf -validate

      ,_         
    ,'  '\,_     Utku Sen's
    |_,-'_)         wholeaked
    /##c '\  (   
   ' |'  -{.  )  "When you have eliminated the impossible,
     /\__-' \[]  whatever remains, however improbable,
    /'-_'\       must be the truth" - Sherlock Holmes
    '     \    
 
Operation started
Couldn't run pdftotext binary
fork/exec /home/koala/Documents/E-book/wholeaked_0.1.0_linux_amd64/pdftotext: permission denied

Any idéa ?

Thanks

[cscs]

How install pdftotext on Manjaro?

Like any other package provided by the repositories.
In this case the binary is provided by a package with a different name.
To search for the file in available packages you could:

sudo pacman -Fyx pdftotext

And with that in mind you can install the package:
ex:

sudo pacman -Syu poppler

Or you can use pamac and/or its GUI to find and install the package.

In general, unless you know what you are doing and have a good reason to do otherwise … thats the place you get software - from the repositories.

Main Page

Note on the linked information:

wholeaked requires pdftotext for verifying watermarks inside PDF files. If you don’t want to use this feature, you don’t need to install it.

1. Download “Xpdf command line tools” for Linux, macOS or Windows from here: Download Xpdf and XpdfReader
2. Extract the archive and navigate to bin64 folder.
3. Copy the pdftotext (or pdftotext.exe) executable to the same folder with wholeaked
4. For Debian Based Linux: Run apt install libfontconfig command.

So … I will point out that pdftotext is actually not a requirement for this software at all.
It is only needed if you intend to use that particular function.

I also have no idea why their suggestion is only to download (and move?) manually the source … maybe its because they only use Debian/Ubuntu and the software is not provided at those repositories?
Thats my best guess. People that write documentation in that way are silly.

[Aragorn]

sudo pacman -S python-pdftotext

[Ben]

Nice tutorial… busy entering and tabbing to learn the flags… slow to learn here

-F query the files database
-y Force download fresh package database
-x interpret each query as a regular expression.

FYI these flags will work the same way with Paru/Yay if you’re not sure they’re in the repositories.

Poppler is the one I installed to rip PDF’s sent by James’ school in 2021.

[cscs]

The sudo (or root) is needed if the y is there.
And you want the y unless you trust the db is up to date (or even exists).
I reflexively use the x for regex … even when its not needed … but it will allow me to do things like quoted brace expansion (and/or work as expected when searching a path), etc.

ex:

$ pacman -Fx 'bin/firefox|bin/chromium'

usr/bin/chromium is owned by extra/chromium 120.0.6099.71-1
usr/bin/chromium-bsu is owned by extra/chromium-bsu 0.9.16.1-1
usr/bin/firefox is owned by extra/firefox 120.0.1-1
usr/bin/firefox-developer-edition is owned by extra/firefox-developer-edition 121.0b8-1
usr/lib/node_modules/web-ext/node_modules/.bin/firefox-profile is owned by extra/web-ext 7.8.0-1